Broken (1993 film)

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Broken (informally known as The Broken Movie) is a 1993 American horror musical short film and long-form music video filmed and directed by Peter Christopherson. It is based on an idea by Trent Reznor, founder of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, and is a companion piece to the 1992 Nine Inch Nails EP Broken. The film features songs from Broken and is essentially a compilation of its music videos (the exception being "Last" and the two hidden tracks). The 20-minute film weaves the album's four music videos together via a violent "snuff film" framing sequence, concluding with an otherwise unreleased video for the EP's final song, "Gave Up", to set the conclusion of the film's frame story to the song. Due to its extremely graphic content, Broken was never officially released, but was leaked as a bootleg that became heavily traded on VHS in the 1990s and more recently online. Reznor said that Broken makes the music video for "Happiness in Slavery", one of the tracks on the album, "look...

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